AP Comparative Government & Politics with Daniel Lazar – Details, episodes & analysis

I sat down with esteemed AP CoGoPo teachers Ryan DeMarco and Anthony Peek just as we finished reading AP CoGoPo exams in Salt Lake City. Together we grapple with the dreaded Question 4.

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Anthony recommends The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Ryan recommends The Foreign Affairs Interview podcast AND The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Daniel recommends About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin, depsite not having heard a single episode at the time of this recording (update: I've since heard it. Ryan was right...and so was I, for once). 

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Dr. Ryan Daugherty is an AP CoGoPo Reader and a professor of political science at Butler University. 

His students read: 

• Most of the dense Orvis and Drogus textbook that podcast alum Karen Waples used as a basis for her AP CoGoPo textbook. 
• Ziblatt and Levitsky's How Democracies Die. 
• Too many articles to list!

He recommends On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau. 

Yours truly heartily recommended Ziblatt and Levitsky's upcoming release, Saving Democracy (coming this fall). 

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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This talk explores how and why Yeltsin and the rest of the world failed to see the revolutionary situation in which Russia found itself in the 1990's and how Putin capitalized on that chaos.

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What does the upper house of Parliament do and what should be done about this esteemed, if sometimes anachronistic legislative body?

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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This talk seeks to summarize and sometimes analyze the functions of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in the UK.

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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This short talk defines political culture then explores Almond's three levels of political culture before diving into cultural congruence and consensual vs. conflictual political cultures.

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Trained in law, Vincent Okwechime worked for Shell Oil Nigeria as a lawyer, manager of oil spill cleanup and compensation, head of security, and lastly as brand manager. He retired in 2010. We have been friends ever since. He is an earnest, kind, and wise man.

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This short talk offers considerations from which to launch scholarly pursuits of Mexican politics and discusses the many policy challenges that the Mexican regime faces.

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Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Thank you for listening.